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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2009-12-18 16:28:20 -0500
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-12-18 16:28:20 -0500
commit486bad2e40e938cd68fd853b7a9fa3115a9d3a4a (patch)
tree498636e706df917e28e62844b16ef05299c2704a
parentb891e4a05ef6beac85465295a032431577c66b16 (diff)
sunrpc: on successful gss error pipe write, don't return error
When handling the gssd downcall, the kernel should distinguish between a successful downcall that contains an error code and a failed downcall (i.e. where the parsing failed or some other sort of problem occurred). In the former case, gss_pipe_downcall should be returning the number of bytes written to the pipe instead of an error. In the event of other errors, we generally want the initiating task to retry the upcall so we set msg.errno to -EAGAIN. An unexpected error code here is a bug however, so BUG() in that case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
index 3c3c50f38a1..66cb89c1834 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -644,7 +644,22 @@ gss_pipe_downcall(struct file *filp, const char __user *src, size_t mlen)
p = gss_fill_context(p, end, ctx, gss_msg->auth->mech);
if (IS_ERR(p)) {
err = PTR_ERR(p);
- gss_msg->msg.errno = (err == -EAGAIN) ? -EAGAIN : -EACCES;
+ switch (err) {
+ case -EACCES:
+ gss_msg->msg.errno = err;
+ err = mlen;
+ break;
+ case -EFAULT:
+ case -ENOMEM:
+ case -EINVAL:
+ case -ENOSYS:
+ gss_msg->msg.errno = -EAGAIN;
+ break;
+ default:
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "%s: bad return from "
+ "gss_fill_context: %ld\n", __func__, err);
+ BUG();
+ }
goto err_release_msg;
}
gss_msg->ctx = gss_get_ctx(ctx);